Misha Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Hi folks. Can somebody help me with two items....that is if these items are possible 1) Is it possible to select multiple tracks and change the bus in bulk. For example if I have 10 tracks that I want to move output from Master to newly created bus? 2) If I have 20+ tracks and lets say 10 have automation lanes "on" (expanded) is it possible to hide automation lanes in bulk? Thank you! Misha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Quick Groups In short, select the tracks, hold the CTRL key and select the desired operation in one of the tracks. All of the selected track will perform the same operation. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted January 4, 2019 Author Share Posted January 4, 2019 Scook you are a Samurai! Thank you! Worked like magic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckebaby Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 I use what Scook mentioned 90% of the time. But if they are a permanent fixture in your mix, you might want to look in to "Control groups" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted January 4, 2019 Author Share Posted January 4, 2019 Thanks, interesting stuff! I think Ctrl will do most of things for me too. Control groups seems like a powerful feature, I am wondering if it will work for this scenario: I usually run all instrumentals on one bus and vocals on the other. Curious if "Control groups" would allow for Freeze / Unfreeze function on all tracks on the particular bus dynamically? What I mean is, it seems it will work with select--->assign method. But will it actually capture newly added tracks? Maybe there is a better method to do this? At times I experiment with various FX and things get very rough for CPU, so I am trying to build a template that would allow to free up resources fast, without turning all FX off . Seems that freezing all tracks for specific bus should do what I am looking for. Thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted January 6, 2019 Author Share Posted January 6, 2019 Sorry to bump this up. I will try to re-phrase my last question. One of biggest limitations I face is when I use CPU hungry FX in Cakewalk. As far as choices to reduce the impact of these FX in my understanding is to : 1)Disable FX globally 2)Freeze tracks 3)Archive tracks muted tracks. 4)Move "similar" tracks to a bus-shared FX. Is there a way to disable / enable FX for particular bus that has tracks with individual FX chains (not shared by that bus) ? I hope I am making sense. Thank you in advance, Misha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 It is possible to bypass individual track/bus FX racks. Right-click in the track/bus FX rack for a context menu with the bypass options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted January 6, 2019 Author Share Posted January 6, 2019 Skook thanks.... but There are only two options for bypass FX on Bus that I see. 1) Bypass FX which is particular to global FX on that bus (It does not turn off racks for individual tracks on that bus) 2)Bypass similar, which is a totally different thing and disables those "similar" FX throughout whole project, regardless which bus they are on. If I have 10 tracks with various FX chains on these individual tracks going to one bus, is it possible to turn off /on those FX in bulk for that particular bus without touching FX settings on other busses and without manually clicking on all individual tracks on that bus and disabling everything one by one? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckebaby Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 I think he means from this menu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted January 6, 2019 Author Share Posted January 6, 2019 Chuck, thanks. Still... Not it. This combines (and enable/disables) FX that sit on the bus itself not FX of individual tracks it is hosting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoo Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Try this...might work but might not. Alt-click on bus to select the bus and - from memory - all tracks that feed it. Ctrl-click in one of the selected track's FX bins and disable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted January 7, 2019 Author Share Posted January 7, 2019 Kevin, thanks, but not it. I guess it is a "feature request" For some reason I thought it would be somewhat popular.. to be be able to disable/enable tracks FX of all tracks that sit on that bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoo Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 You're right: "smart" selection doesn't apply to the FX bin bypass menu item. Oh well - sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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